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afunk··on Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
This is currently my workflow lol. I will build features and functions rapidly then extract and rebuild into smaller more focused pieces of software. I think of it like oil painting. I’m able to paint over, scrape off and repaint relevant sections without being burdened by the complexity of what has already been painted.
afunk··on Show HN: Visualize Model Spikiness in 3D
i think i actually need to dig for a broader breadth of benchmark scores. right now, taking from the model page means i get the 'best of' results. instead of tests where the model sucks - glm is bad at biology for instance.

im going to aggregate as many benchmarks from as many sources as i can

afunk··on Show HN: Visualize Model Spikiness in 3D
did you blow it up or not
afunk··on Show HN: Visualize Model Spikiness in 3D
thanks for the idea i'll try that out
afunk··on Interesting LLM visualization I stumbled upon
this seemed like a very intuitive visual description of token generation
afunk··on I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph
You should try rendering the graph in 3js. It’s pretty easy and so so beautiful.

Toto.tech has a decent example. You have flight controls with wasd + mouse

afunk··on The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
Such an embarrassing way to to get caught.

"The attacker compromised this OAuth application — the compromise has since been traced to a Lumma Stealer malware infection of a Context.ai employee in approximately February 2026, reportedly after the employee downloaded Roblox game exploit scripts"

afunk··on A Century of Quantum Mechanics
haha. the same year the moving assembly line was invented.
afunk··on Dr Pepper is now as popular as Pepsi. It's still shrouded in mystery
its pretty crazy because when dr pepper says 23 flavors those are only the 23 we have discovered so far. i've been hearing of research that at least 3 new flavors have been found in the last couple years but the papers are still in peer review.
afunk··on Ancient Greek terms worth reviving
From a fun book I have “Philosophy in 40 Ideas”

Eudaimonia THIS IS AN ANCIENT GREEK WORD, normally translated as 'fulfilment', particularly emphasised by the philosopher Aristotle. It deserves wider currency because it corrects the shortfalls in one of the most central terms in our contemporary idiom: happiness. The Ancient Greeks resolutely did not believe that the purpose of life was to be happy; they proposed that it was to be fulfilled. What distinguishes happiness from fulfilment is pain. It is eminently possible to be fulfilled and, at the same time, under pressure, suffering physically or mentally, overburdened and in a tetchy mood. Many of life's most worthwhile projects will, at points, be quite at odds with contentment, but may be worth pursuing nevertheless. Henceforth, we shouldn't try to be happy; we should accept the greater realism, ambition and patience that accompanies the quest for eudaimonia.

afunk··on Indirect Prompt Injection on Bing Chat
Super interesting - I would imagine a whole industry surrounding AI Insurance will pop up to deal with the liability of giving AI tools more and more ability to act on your behalf. Imagine if Bing Chat could populate fields on the DMV website and simultaneously steal your identity. Someone is responsible for the AI facilitating that crime and thus some form of liability insurance would inevitably exist.
afunk··on Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks
This is so nuanced and goofy
afunk··on The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism
I figured an uplifting post ahead of Monday would be good for the spirit
afunk··on Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing
shower idea - i lack the technical skills and connections to actualize my dreams and ideas at present (can someone please help me with frontend).

The idea here is that you donate in favor of/against a bill you want. Then representatives that vote favorably to your preference receive a portion of the funds as campaign contributions. If lobbying is so cheap why can't it be done by the people for the people? I see dogs raise more than politicians on GFM.

afunk··on Bird Scooters Ditch SF
They updated the title on the chronicle site
afunk··on Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing
I had an idea for a site that allows you to lobby the gov in a GoFundMe format after realizing how little money is actually moving.